Social rights and human welfare

by Dean, Hartley

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Title Statements

Full title :Social rights and human welfare / Hartley Dean.

Summary

"An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of citizenship in developed welfare states and as an essential component within the international human rights and human development agenda. It provides a valuable introduction for students and researchers in social policy and related applied social science, public policy, sociology, socio-legal studies and social development fields. Taking an international perspective, the first part of the book considers how social rights can be understood and critiqued in theory--discussing ideas around citizenship, human needs and human rights, collective responsibility and ethical imperatives. The second part of the book looks at social rights in practice, providing a comparative examination of their development globally, before looking more specifically at rights to livelihood, human services and housing as well as ways in which these rights can be implemented and enforced. The final section re-evaluates prevailing debates about rights-based approaches to poverty alleviation and outlines possible future directions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of social rights in theory and practice. It questions recent developments in social policy. It challenges certain dominant ideas concerning the basis of human rights. It seeks to re-frame our understanding of social rights as the articulation of human needs and presents a radical new 'post-Marshallian' theory of human rights"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317747505, 131774750X, 9781315795423, 1315795426
oclc:ocn903930075
LC Classification:HM671
Dewey Decimal:361.6/14

pt. 1. Social rights in theory -- pt. 2. Social rights in practice -- pt. 3. Re-thinking social rights.

Subjects

Aide sociale Aide sociale -- Grande-Bretagne Droits économiques et sociaux Droits économiques et sociaux -- Grande… Grande-Bretagne -- Politique sociale Great Britain Great Britain -- Social policy Grossbritannien POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Politique sociale PUBLIC POLICY Public welfare Public welfare -- Great Britain Social policy Social rights Social rights -- Great Britain SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services Sozialpolitik Sozialrecht welfare services